China says it is to hold joint military exercises with Russian Federation in the South China Sea, amid heightened tensions over the disputed waters.
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Yet Mr. Sounry, the foreign ministry spokesman, on Wednesday also denied that the half billion dollars of aid promised to Cambodia by China on July 15-three days after the court’s ruling-had swayed Cambodia’s choice.
THE alleged scribbling of offensive words on a Chinese woman’s passport by Vietnamese border staff has caught the attention of the Chinese government.
“This is a routine exercise between the two armed forces, aimed at strengthening the developing China-Russia strategic cooperative partnership”, China’s Defense Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun told a news conference, as cited by Reuters.
Outgoing Philippine ambassador to the US Jose Cuisia criticized Foreign Affairs Secretary Perfecto Yasay Jr. for failing to push for the inclusion of an worldwide court’s favorable ruling on the South China Sea dispute in the Asean joint communiqué despite strong global support for the Philippines’ case.
The reaction is a sign of the enmity between the two countries over the South China Sea.
The panel rejected the legality of China’s claims to the nine-dash demarcation line, which encompasses most of the waters of the SCS.
Earlier this month, China lost a case against the Philippines at the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague. These drills come after recent joint exercises between the two nations in the Mediterranean.
“We consider that attempts by non-regional powers to interfere in territorial disputes in the South China Sea are unproductive”, she said.
He added that the joint drill is “routine” and “does not target any third party”.
This aerial image taken from a C-130 transport plane shows a general view of Taiping Island during a visit by journalists to the island, in the disputed South China Sea, March 23, 2016. China kept any mention of the judgment from appearing in a joint communique from issued at the conclusion Tuesday of a meeting between it and the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
We’re not concerned about the safety of US vessels in the region as long as interactions with the Chinese remain safe and professional, which has been the case in most cases, the official said.
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But the Obama administration has always been under pressure from some to be more hawkish, and China has seen the United States as having an agenda in the region, despite assurances like Kerry’s.
